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23.10. 2009
GENERAL STUDIES
Paper I
INSTRUCTIONS
Each Question is printed both in Hindi and
English
Medium.
Answer must be written in the medium
specified in the
Admission Certificate issued to you, which
must be stated
clearly on the cover of the answer book in
the space
provided for the purpose . No Marks will be
given for the
answers written in a medium other than
that specific in the
Admission Certificate.
Candidates should attempt all questions
strictly in
accordance with the instructions given under
each question.
The number of marks carried by each
question is indicated
at the end of the question.
1. Critically analyze any two of the following
statements with
reference to the context in which they were
made (in about 150
words each) 15×2=30
a) “Many Englishmen honesty consider
themselves the
trustees for India and yet to what a
condition they have
reduced our country”.
b) “The Foreign power will be withdrawn but
for me real
freedom will come only when we free
ourselves of the
dominance of western education , western
culture and
western way of living which have been
ingrained in us”.
c) “Satan cannot enter till he finds a flaw
……. A great
ocean separate us educated few from the
millions in our
country”.
2. Write about the following (not exceeding
20 words each)
a) King Nongbah 2×10=20
b) Maski
c) Govind Guru
d) ‘ Brahmadeya ’
e) ‘ Egmore Faction’
f) ‘ Haileybury College
g) Ijara System
h) Taji Mideren
i) Gurudwara Reform Movement
j) ‘ Marumakkathayam’
Time Allowed: Three Hours Maximum
Marks: 300
3. Answer any four of the following
questions (in about 150
words each) 15×4=60
a) Assess the significance of coastal regions
in the economic
development of India.
b) Discuss the wetlands and their role in the
ecological
conservation in India.
c) Elaborate the steps taken by the
Government for
regionally differentiated approach to
increase crop
production and diversification in the country.
d) Bring out the Significance of the various
activities of the
Indian Metrological Department.
e) Examine the status of urbanization
among the states in
India and bring out spatial inequalities.
4. Write about the following (not exceeding
30 words each)
3×10=30
a) ‘ Bhuvan Website ‘
b) National Waterways
c) Ultra Mega Power Projects
d) NNRMS
e) BSUP Scheme
f) Gagan Project
g) Fruit Production in India
h) Section 377 of IPC
i) ‘ Wherebouts clause of WADA”
j) Barren Island
5. Answer any two of the following
questions (in about 100
words each) 10×2=20
a) Analyse India’s achievements in the
sports sectors during
2008-2009.
b) List the salient features of the important
folk dances of
either Central India or Northern Eastern
India.
c) What are the important similarities and
difference
between the Hindustani and the Carnatic
Styles of Classic
music?
6. Answer any two of the following
questions (in about 150
words each) 15×2=30
a) What are your views on the features and
impact of
Domestic Violence Act, 2005?
b) Are the traditional determinants of voting
behavior in
India changing? Examine in the context of
last General
Elections.
c) Examine corruption as a serious
development challenge
in Indian Polity.
7. Answer any two of the following
questions (in about 150
words each) 15×2=30
a) Mushrooming of Higher Educational
Institutions was a
matter of grave concern for Yashpal
Committte. With
reference to the relevant portion of that
report give your
views how to harmonise private investment
and quality of
education.
b) In the changing context of governance in
the country,
what should be the role of the UPSC?
c) In the Context of recent incidents ,
suggest measures on
how security of passengers and property
can be improved
over indian railways.
8. Answer any one of the following
questions (in about 250
words each) 30
a) Comment on the salient features of the
Integrated Energy
Policy recently approved by the government
and its
implication on the energy security needs of
the country.
b) How far has impact of the global
meltdown been
reflected in the Economic Survey 2008-09?
Identify some
of the core areas given priority to neutralize
the adverse
effects of the global downturn.
9. Answer any two of the following
questions (in about 150
words each) 15×2=30
a) Trace the significance steps in the
evolution of Television
in the country.
b) The Last National Family Health Survey
(NFHS)
displayed a very dismal picture of nutrition
as regards
several indicators for average Indians.
Highlights the
salient aspects of this problem.
c) ‘ As we live in a plural society we need
the greatest
freedom to expresss our opinions even if
others find it
offensive’ – Do you agree ? Discuss with
reference to
some recent incidents in the Indian context.
10. Write about the following (not exceeding
20 words each)
a)Desert National Park 2×10=20
b) Significance of 26th November in the
Country’s Polity
c) Rajiv Gandhi Seva Kendra
d) Girni Kamgar Union
e) Ayush-64
f) Rashtriya Gramin Vikas Nidhi ( GGVN)
g) Deep Joshi’s recent Achievement
h) Satya Vrat Shastri’s recent achievement
i) Pocket Veto
j) PESA , 1996
GENERAL STUDIES
Paper II
INSTRUCTIONS
Each Question is printed both in Hindi and
English
Medium.
Answer must be written in the medium
specified in the
Admission Certificate issued to you, which
must be stated
clearly on the cover of the answer book in
the space
provided for the purpose . No Marks will be
given for the
answers written in a medium other than
that specific in the
Admission Certificate.
Candidates should attempt all questions
strictly in
accordance with the instructions given under
each question.
The number of marks carried by each
question is indicated
at the end of the question.
1. Write notes on any three of the following
(in about 150 words
each) 3×15=45
a) India’s strategic interests in South Asia
b) China’s ‘peaceful rise’ doctrine
c) India Russia Defence Ties
d) India’s ‘soft’ and ‘Hard’ power strategy in
foreign policy
2. Write brief notes on any four of the
following in about 50
words each 4×5=20
a) Nuclear Supply Group ( NSG ) and India
b) Your view on the recent ‘ Gilgit-Baltistan
Empowerment
and Self Governance Order 2009’
c) Wakhan Corridor
d) Nuclear Submarine ‘ Arihant’
e) National Security Advisory Board (NSAB)
3. Comment on any two of the following in
about 100 words
2×10=20
a) India – USA as strategic partners
b) Ethnic conflict in South Asia
c) ‘ NEPAD’ and its objectives
Time Allowed: Three Hours Maximum
Marks: 300
4. Write on any two of the following in about
50 words each.
2×5=10
a) Indo-Bhutan trade relations
b) Sino Myanmar relations
c) Geopolitics and Geostrategy
..
5. Comment critically on any one of the
following statements in
not more than 200 words: 20
a) “ Foreign investment is far from being
critical to India’s
economic growth”
b) “ The Lesson of current global financial
crisis is that
India should halt and may be even reverse
financial
liberalization”.
6. Answer any one of the following in about
200 words : 20
a). “ In the WTO negotiations over the years
of the DOHA
Rounds , India appears to be diluting its
stand on agriculture
issues to pursue perceived gains in
services”. Critically
examine this statements.
b). Discuss the Indo – US Knowledge
initiative in
Agriculture.
7. Answer any two of the following
questions (in about 150
words each) 15×2=30
a) Evaluate the prospects for greater
economic cooperation
between India & China.
b) Does India need the world Bank ?
c) Critically assesses the recent Free Trade
Agreement
entered into by India with ASEAN.
8. Answer any three of the following
questions (in about 150
words each) 3 ×15=45
a) What do you understand by
‘Biosignatures’? Discuss
briefly.
b) Write about Green Florescence Protein
( GFP ) and its
application.
c) Define ‘ Bioinformatics’ . How does it
work ? What is
the major branches and applications ?
d) What is the ‘ Hubble Space Telescope’ ?
How many
Service Mission ( SMs) have been conducted
for it ?
9. Explain any four of the following (100
words each) 4 ×10=40
a) DNA Finger Printing and its utility.
b) What is ‘Nanotech’. Give a brief account
of its basic
concepts, material used and applications.
c) What is ‘ Graphene’? Mention at least
three of its
applications.
d) Define ‘ optical frequency comb’ .
Suggest at least three
applications.
e) Why is Tele-medicine important for
country like India?
10. Write brief notes on any five of the
following ( in about 30
words each): 5 ×13=15
a) Artificial Sun
b) ‘ Vegetable Gold’
c) PFCs and ‘ liquid breathing’
d) The ‘ P- 8 A Poseidon’
e) Biometric ATMs
f) Extra Vehicle Activity ( EVA)
11. a). The total areas of cultivation of high,
medium and low
sugar content, sugarcanes in four regions of
a state are given
below :
Sugar Region
Content North South East West
High 100 100 200 50
Medium 300 300 400 250
Low 800 400 1000 700
Total 1200 800 1600 1000
Draw suitable diagram that facilitates the
comparison of areas of
cultivation of different sugar content
varieties among the four
regions 6
b). The following table gives the production
of soda ash ( in tons
) by three companies ( A , B and C ) over
seven years period :
Company 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001
2002
A 20 25 28 31 34 36 41
B 15 18 23 35 40 46 50
C 45 43 40 37 30 26 20
Draw a suitable diagram so as to compare
the performance of
these companies.
c). The following date relate to the sales and
net profit ( in
Rupees Crores) of a company : 4
Years 1994-95 1995-96 1996-97 1997-98
1998-99
Sales 100 250 300 290 680
Net Profits 2.5 4.5 6 8.5 12
i). In which year the percentage of growth
in sales, relative to the
previous year is higher?
ii). In which year the percentage of growth
in net profit , relative
to the previous year , is higher?
iii). Let the probability be defined as the
ratio of Net Profit to
sales. In which Year the profitability is
higher ?
d). The Total sales ( in ‘000 rupees ) of a
particular item in shop ,
on 10 consecutive days , is reported by a
clerk as follows : 5
35.00 29.60 38.00 30.00 40.00
41.00 42.00 45.00 3.60 3.80
Later it was found that reports of the 4th
and 8th days were 10.00
more than the true values and that in the
last two days the clerk
put a decimal wrongly one place to the left (
for example , 3.60
was really 36.0 ). Calculate the true mean
value of sale
12.a). In a factory , 1500 women are
working . Eight hundred of
them come from rural areas and 450 of the
married women are
skill labourers. The number of skilled , rural
and married
labourers is 300. of the 400 unmarried and
skilled women
labourers , 250 are from urban areas. The
number of married ,
semi skill women labouers from urban areas
is 200. One hundred
married rural women are semi skilled
labourers.
Tabulate the above information. 4
b). The mean score of a class in an
examination is 70. If the
mean score of boys is 60 and that of girls is
75, obtain the
percentage of girls in the class. 4
c). In a city 20% people read newspaper A ,
25% people read B
and 10% read both A and B . What is the
percentage of people
who read at least one of the two
newspapers ? 2
d). In order to study the effect of inoculation
on TB , It was
found that the number of inoculated and
unaffected from TB is
28. and not inoculated and affected from TB
is 13. If inoculation
was performed over 40 persons out of 60
persons, complete the
table and obtain the missing numbers.
e). The percentage of literates six villages of
an area are noted as
follows : 2
52 , 46 , 21 , 30 , 17 , 24
Can compute the percentage of literates in
the entire area from
this information ? If yes , compute the
percentage. If no , state
what additional information you would need
for computation.